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==Belarus==
[[File:All administrative divisions of Belarus april 2025.png|thumb|All administrative divisions of Belarus, April 2025]]
[[Rural councils of Belarus]] are subordinated to  [[districts of Belarus]]. If a rural council includes [[agrotown (Belarus)|agrotown]]s, then one of them is the [[administrative center]] of the rural council, with some exceptions.<ref name=law>{{Cite web |url=http://www.levonevski.net/pravo/razdel2/num6/2d686.html |title=Закон Республики Беларусь от 5 мая 1998 г. №154-З "Об административно-территориальном делении и порядке решения вопросов административно-территориального устройства Республики Беларусь" |access-date=2016-10-22 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100616052842/http://levonevski.net/pravo/razdel2/num6/2d686.html |archive-date=2010-06-16 |url-status=dead |lang=ru}}</ref>

The system was introduced in 1924, when the whole [[Soviet Union]] replaced its administrative division inherited from the [[Russian Empire]].<ref name=su1924>[https://web.archive.org/web/20160820124643/http://bargu.by/1744-rayonirovanie-administrativno-territorialnoe-delenie-strany.html РАЙОНИРОВАНИЕ. АДМИНИСТРАТИВНО-ТЕРРИТОРИАЛЬНОЕ ДЕЛЕНИЕ СТРАНЫ.]</ref>